Playing-card.



PATBNTED JAN. 20, 1903.

v, R. can. PLAYING CARDS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17, 1902.

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No. 718,917. PATENTBD JAN. 29, 1903. V. R GOXE.

PLAYING CARDS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17. 1902. no MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET a.

Unrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VIRGINIA ROSALIE OOXE, OF KNOXVILL I, TENNESSEE.

PLAYING-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,917, dated January20, 1903.

Application filed February 17, 1902. Serial No. 94,492. (No model.)

y I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification.

My invention relates to playing-cards, and

particularly to cards for games to be played by four or six players.

The object of the invention is to produce a game in which the leadingcards bear representations or designations of race-horses. I haveapplied to said game the name handicap-whist.

Figures 1 to 6, inclusive, illustrate cards each of which is the leadingcard of a suit. Figs. 7, S, 9, and 10 illustrate a series of cards whichappear in each suit.

The entire pack of cards is composed of six suits, each containingfourteen cards. Each of the race-horse cards illustrated by Figs. 1 to6, inclusive, represents a race-horse, designated, preferably, bypicture, name, and color, the name and color being distinct for eachhorse. Each of said race-horse cards is the leading card of its suit,the remainder of its suit being made up of the thirteen cardsillustrated by Figs. 7, 8, 9, and 10, said thirteen cards taking thecolor of the leading card. Aside from the leading card, the cards ofevery suit have the same number and relative value as the cards in asuit in the ordinary pack used for playing euchre, Whist, &c. The ace(shown in Fig. 10) is the second of the suit. The cards illustrated byFigs. 7 and 8 are respectively the king and queen of such ordinaryplaying-cards. These constitute the third and fourth cards of the suit.The fifth card of the suit (illustrated by Fig. 9) represents a jockey,preferably by picture and name. On each of the leading or racer cards aflag or other suitable device is placed upon one or more corners of thecard and colored to conform to the color of its suit. The third, fourth,and fifth cards are also preferably provided at each corner with asuitable device or emblem bearing the color of the suit to which thecard belongs. In the case of the king and queen such emblem or devicemay be a crown or coronet, and in the case of the jockey such device oremblem may be a jockeys cap.

The ten cards illustrated by Fig. 10 are the ten spot-cards of the packin ordinary use; but in each of the six suits of my game the spotsdiffer in color from the color applied to the other groups, and thecolor of the spotcards in each suit is the same as the color of theracer, king, queen, and jockey cards of the same suit.

One of the six leading or racer cards is made an advantage card, saidcard representing a horse having carried off all prizes and higheststakes. It takes everything, and the suit of that card permanentlyrepresents trumps, and every card of that suit counts one to the holderat the end of the hand. Said suit may therefore be called the advantagesuit. In the drawings the card illustrated by Fig. 1 is said advantagecard. Its color is blue, indicating the success of its horse Criterionin carrying off all prizes and stakes.

The four leading cards illustrated by Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 designatehorses Tornado, Drifton, Longshot, and Fleetfoot, which are representedin the game as running even and no advantage or disadvantage attaches tothem in the game and all have the same relative value. Their colors arerespectively red, yellow, purple, and green.

The card illustrated by Fig. 6 designates Old Bones, a horse that isslow and losing in the races and bearing orange color. This is adisadvantage card, having lower value than the other leading cards. Saidcard handicaps the holder and sets him back one point, and every card ofthis suit discounts one to the holder, just as every card of the suit towhich the advantage card belongs counts one for the holder at the end ofthe hand. Said suit to which the disadvantage card belongs may thereforebe called the disadvantage suit.

It will be understood that any desired col- 2. A pack of playing-cards,said pack being ors may be chosen as substitutes for those composed inpart of a plurality of cards repherein mentioned. resentin race-horsesrunnin even and of I I u b u The racers or leadin cards take ever thinan advanta e card re 136861113111 a horse Win- 27 y a a p a 5 and havethe same value as okers. nlng all races, and of a disadvantage card 20My improved pack of cards may beused for representing a slow or losinghorse, and of ordinary card games, after taking out two cardsrepresenting jockeys.

suits and the six racers. In testimony whereof I affix my signature, Iclaim as my invention in presence of two witnesses, this 14th day ofIO 1. A pack of playing-cards, said pack be- February, in the year 1902.

in composed in part of a plurality of cards representing race-horsesrunning even and VIRGINIA ROSALIE COXE' an advantage card representing ahorse win- Witnesses: ning all races and of a disadvantage card HENRY H.INGERSOLL, 15 representing a slow or losing horse. ROBERT PFLANZE.

